 35. Consciousness (Two Forms) |
In the state of enlightenment, also known as God realization, Tao, Satori, nirvana, heaven, Samadhi, baptism, etc., one has many "insights" to the spiritual condition. Insight is the same thing as "remembrances."
Consciousness is not a function of the brain. - Consciousness is ETERNAL living energy.
Consciousness is: Spiritual -self awareness which is prior to and inner witness to the PHYSICAL BODY, mind and thoughts, which creates its own psychological ego and its fixation as a separate entity.
Pure consciousness is not void or empty. Pure consciousness is eternal self-awareness as spirit. (It is only empty of thoughts.)
The Bhagavad-gita States:
For Him who has conquered his (lower) self by the (higher) SELF, his SELF is a friend. But for him who has not possessed his (higher) SELF, his very SELF will act in enmity, like an enemy. This is the same teaching Jesus gives in the gospel of Thomas #70. If you bring forth that which is within you, that which you bring forth (SELF Realization) will save you.
God did not cast man out of heaven. It is mankind who cast itself out by getting involved (lost) in creation (while passing through it on its journey toward evolution).
"If therefore your eye" (Consciousness) "is good," (centered inwardly, not involved with the body), "your whole body will be full of light."
-Jesus,.Matthew 6:22
To "think" that the psychical body is the "material" and that "thoughts" are the spiritual, is incorrect. Thoughts are part of the material, also.
Consciousness, as -Self awareness, is prior to the body and its thoughts.
The "witness"-consciousness, which is identical to consciousness itself, is not "caused". Consciousness itself is not an "effect' or a "result" of any conditional event or any display of conditional events. The very existence of consciousness itself it not dependent on any condition, or any display of conditions. Consciousness (super consciousness, over soul. Atman, Christ consciousness, Tao) itself is an inherent characteristic or most "prior" most primitive, irreducible, inherently spiritual, and (ultimately)"divine element of being itself"or "of existence itself". When conditions arise, and change, and pass away, consciousness itself remains always as the same.
-Franklin Jones
In ancient Taoism God or consciousness-spirit prior to creation is called "Tao" (the Father). As God (Tao) moves to become creation (the Son), it becomes primal "Chi" or foundational energy, ether.
